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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik
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LIKE RUM-DRUNK ANGELS

Tyler Enfield

An entirely original retelling of the Aladdin story as an American western. ?"Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez." - Winnipeg Free Press?
Francis Blackstone is a fourteen-year old gunslinger with a heart of gold. He's fallen for the governor's daughter and goes in search of the fortune that will allow him to marry her. With few prospects for immediate wealth in sight, Francis joins forces with the notorious gunslinger, Bob Temple. Together they form The Blackstone Temple Gang, an infamous group of gentleman train robbers who become a country-wide media sensation.

Set in the Wild West, this is an offbeat and magical literary work. Filled with big skies, daring shoot-outs, and blazing dialogue, it is an entirely original retelling of the Aladdin story as an American western.

Enfield is a writer and photographer, and the author of four novels. He is the winner of the 2016 High Plains Book Award and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Prize. His film, Invisible World (2017) was co-written with Giller Prize winner Madeleine Thien, and was the recipient of three Alberta Screen Awards.
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Published by Goose Lane

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"The great strength of LIKE RUM-DRUNK ANGELS is its relentless, page-turning pace. [It is] a surreal, often hilarious fracturing of traditional western tropes, imbuing classic elements (train jobs, shootouts, long talks around the campfire) with a spirited post-modern awareness, including Greek mythology, tales from the Arabian Nights, and a surprisingly effective cosmic existentialism. LIKE RUM-DRUNK ANGELS demonstrate(s) not only that the western is thriving but that it is vital and fresh. Far from antiquated or old-fashioned, the form admits a freedom of storytelling that allows idiosyncratic creators to stake their claims firmly in their own particular (and often peculiar) landscape and create magic out of the wild." -Robert J. Wiersema, Quill & Quire

"Original and gripping right up to the final page..."

"Like The Sister's Brothers... only better."

“Employing traits from the playbooks of both the Coen Brothers and Walt Disney, this Western stars 14-year-old gunslinger Francis Blackstone on a journey to make his fortune and win a young lady's heart. A buddy-novel with bandits, bank robbing and adventure a-plenty.” —Globe and Mail